Abbot & Slater

Crate & Crate Cottage The Hollow, Child Okeford, Blanford Forum DT11 8EX

A much loved home for over 40 years this charming attached cottage offers tremendous potential A charming Semi Detached village Cottage with ground Floor to update and extend (subject to the necessary consents). It has spacious 2 Reception Room, Cloakroom, Open Plan Sitting /Dining Room with modern Kitchen 3 Bedroom accommodation, a Brick Outbuilding and Gardens and Grounds of 0.29 acres off, 1st Floor Bedroom and Family Shower Room, and 2nd Floor located in the heart of this much sought after village. Guide Price £425,000*. Double Bedroom with fitted Wardrobes. Off Road Parking and Cottage Garden total area 0.070 acres. Guide Price £235,000*. *Available to buy together Guide Price £660,000. Education outbuilding and store together with There are first schools in the village of Child a corrugated iron Cartshed. There is Okeford and the nearby village of Shillingstone ample parking to the rear of the with Senior Schools in Blandford and cottage and the landscaped gardens Sturminster Newton. The area is also surround the cottage on three sides. renowned for its plethora of independent Location schools including Hanford, St Mary’s Child Okeford is a Dorset village Shaftesbury, the Sherborne Schools, Knighton located at the foot of the ancient House and Bryanston. Hambledon Hill a Neolithic ceremonial burial site with an Iron Directions Age Hill Fort and dating back to the From our office in Sturminster Newton Doomesday Book. The village is proceed over the town bridge turning left onto situated between the nearby towns the A357. Just before the village of of Sturminster Newton and Shillingstone turn left sign posted Child Blandford Forum. Local amenities Okeford. On entering the village turn left at include a general store and sub post office, public house, village hall and the T-junction and proceed into the village parish church. The village also passed the Post Office and Sores and on Crate boasts a Cricket and Football Pitch towards the village cross opposite the Bakers together with Doctor’s Surgery and First School. Arms Inn. Just beyond the cross follow the Set in Gardens and Grounds The Property The larger centres of Poole, Bournemouth and road around to the left into The Hollow. Crate Shaftesbury are all within a convenient travelling and Crate cottage will be found on the right of 0.29 acres. Detached Purchased by the family in the very early 1970’s distance. hand side a short distance after the Village Hall Crate has been a much loved family home Brick Outbuilding and and should be easily recognised by our For although sadly little is now known of its early Cartshed Parking. Sale Boards and photographs of the properties. history other than it was a later addition to the Front Porch, Sitting Room, Nearby towns include previously thatched cottage now known as Crate Sturminster Newton, a traditional market town Dining Room, Rear Hall, Cottage. The property occupies an elevated site located at a bend of the Stour which offers a Kitchen/Breakfast Room, in The Hollow and enjoys gardens and grounds wide range of shopping facilities, and the of 0.29 acres including a Detached Brick Georgian Market town of Blandford Forum has Ground Floor w.c., and Rear Outbuilding and Store. It has brick elevations a larger range of shops and supermarkets. The Porch, Master Bedroom, under a slate roof and tiled roof. larger towns of Gillingham to the north and the Crate although not Listed does enjoy a Family Shower Room and Abbey town of Sherborne to the West offer a considerable number of charming period 2 further Double Bedrooms more extensive range of shopping and cultural features, including an Inglenook fireplace in the one with Dressing Room off. Sitting Room and a wealth of exposed beamwork facilities. both to this room and the Dining Room. It has a very good sized Kitchen/Breakfast Room and Communication Master Bedroom, with the 2 further Bedrooms There are main-line railway stations at both being doubles. The First Floor Shower Gillingham and Sherborne offering services to Room is modern and there is a ground floor London (Waterloo) and the West Country. Cloakroom. Outside there is a charming brick London by car via the A303/M3 which can be Hallway joined just north of Shaftesbury or at Mere. Kitchen/Breakfast Room Sitting Room

Exposed beamwork, radiators (skirting Kitchen/Breakfast Room: Dual Aspect Breakfast Area: Painted panelling to Accommodation: board level) and wall lights. with windows to the side and front dado rail, seating area and space for a (Please see floor plan for approximate elevation. The Kitchen Area has a range table. The Kitchen and Dining area measurements). Dining Room: Glazed door to Front of floor standing units with drawers benefit from strip lighting. Porch, exposed beamwork, ceiling light and cupboards above which there are Ground Floor to Dining Area and staircase to First laminate worksurfaces with inset Front Porch: has glazed panels above a Floor Landing. Hatch to Kitchen and Electrolux hob. Sink unit with brick plinth and a lead roof. It has a thermostat for central heating. Radiator mixer tap over and fully tiled part glazed front door and internally at skirting board level and archway splash backs and surround to this there is a quarry tiled floor. A glazed leading to: area. Eye level Electrolux oven door from the Porch leads into the Inner Hall: Radiator at skirting board and grill in housing unit with Dining Room. level, understairs cupboard offering storage above and below. Sliding Rear Porch: Double glazed UPvc door storage and coat hanging space. door to walk in pantry with light leads to entrance lobby with w.c., off. Painted panelling to dado rail, fire and shelving. The electricity Glazed door then leads to the Sitting alarm and ceiling light. meter and fuse box is located in Room: this area. Space for fridge Rear Entrance Lobby: Dining Room UPvc glazed freezer, hatch to Dining Room Sitting Room: Dual Aspect Inglenook door from the rear of the property leads and Worcester Danesmoor 12/14 fireplace with bressummer beam over to Entrance Lobby and sliding door to oil fired boiler which supplies hot water having inset stone fire surround with Kitchen/Breakfast Room and archway and central heating to radiators. brick grate and quarry tiled hearth. to Inner Hall. Bedroom 2: window to the front Outside Accommodation: elevation. Double doors to fitted (Please see floor plan for approximate wardrobe with hanging space and The property is approached measurements). storage shelf. Radiator at skirting from the lane via a short First Floor board level and wall lights. Council owned track that leads passed Crate Cottage and is From the Dining Room staircase with Bedroom 3 with Dressing Area off: used by 3 other properties. inset wrought iron work leads to the L Windows in both these rooms to the Wrought iron gates then lead to Shaped First Floor Landing: Hatch to side elevation. Exposed beamwork, the driveway and parking area loft space, ceiling light and firm alarm. wall lights and radiators at skirting in front of the corrugated iron Master Bedroom: Dual Aspect board level. In the Dressing Area Cartshed parking and separate offering views to the front and rear there is an Airing Cupboard with brick outbuilding. elevation. Radiators at skirting board factory lagged tank and range of Outbuildings: Having brick elevations under a slate roof. The smaller of these level, built in cupboards with hanging slatted shelving. There is also a very two buildings could have been a wash house with the larger having two separate space either side of the chimney breast small loft hatch in this room. areas which could have been a stable and hay store. It has what appears to be the and central ceiling light. original brick flooring. Family Shower Room: Wash hand Gardens and Grounds: To the front elevation the property is bordered by a basin set into pine vanity unit with mature hedge and there is a wrought iron gate from the lane and pathway that storage cupboard under. Low level leads to the Porch and front entrance to the cottage. The gardens to the side and w.c., having concealed cistern. Fully rear elevations of the cottage are mostly laid to lawn with mature and specimen tiled shower cubicle with Mira Event trees and shrubs providing colour and interest throughout the seasons. There is a electric shower over. Bidet, painted Greenhouse and Summerhouse in the garden. panelling to dado rail, ladder style heated towel rail and ceiling light. IMPORTANT NOTICE Crate Abbot and Slater and their Clients give FLOOR PLAN notice that: 1. The particulars are intended to give a fair and substantially correct overall description for the guidance of intending purchasers and do not constitute part of an offer or contract. Prospective purchasers and lessees ought to seek their own professional advice. 2. All descriptions, dimensions, areas, Services: Mains water and reference to condition and necessary electricity. Private drainage and permissions for use and occupation and Calor Gas Central Heating. other details are given in good faith, and are believed to be correct, but any intending Local Authority: purchasers should not rely on them as North Dorset District Council, statements or representations of fact, but Nordon, Salisbury Road, must satisfy themselves by inspection or Blandford DT11 7LN. otherwise as to the correctness of each of them. Telephone: 01258 454111. 3. No person in the employment of Abbot and GROUND FLOOR Council Tax Band: E Slater has any authority to make or give any Amount payable for the current representation of warranty whatever in relation to the property. year: £2,052.28 4. No responsibility can be accepted for any expenses incurred by intending purchasers in inspecting properties which have been sold, or withdrawn.

Viewing: Strictly by appointment through Abbot and Slater. Prior to making an appointment to view, the Agents strongly recommend that you discuss any particular points which are likely to affect your interest in the property in order that you do not make a wasted journey. Accompanied Viewings: Strictly by appointment All measurements are approximate. Particulars prepared by CDS FIRST FLOOR through the agents Plan for indentification purposes only. Not to Scale. Design by Media 4 Graphix Abbot and Slater. Published by Abbot & Slater © February 2017

Abbot & Slater Market Cross, Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 1AN Telephone 01258 830860 email: [email protected] www.abbotandslater.co.uk Education Cottage has brick elevations under aThere are first schools in the village of Child Crate Cottage Outsideclay tiled there roof. is a Parking Space Okeford and the nearby village of Shillingstone and area of Cottage Garden. with Senior Schools in Blandford and Sturminster Newton. The area is also Location renowned for its plethora of independent Child Okeford is a Dorset village schools including Hanford, St Mary’s located at the foot of the ancient Shaftesbury, the Sherborne Schools, Knighton Hambledon Hill a Neolithic House and Bryanston. ceremonial burial site with an Iron Age Hill Fort and dating back to the Directions Doomesday Book. The village is From our office in Sturminster Newton situated between the nearby towns proceed over the town bridge turning left onto of Sturminster Newton and the A357. Just before the village of Shilling- Blandford Forum. Local amenities stone turn left sign posted Child Okeford. On include a general store and sub post office, public house, village hall and entering the village turn left at the T-junction parish church. The village also and proceed into the village passed the Post boasts a Cricket and Football Pitch Office and Sores and on towards the village together with Doctor’s Surgery and cross opposite the Bakers Arms Inn. Just First School. The larger centres of beyond the cross follow the road around to the Poole, Bournemouth and left into The Hollow. Crate and Crate cottage Shaftesbury are all within a will be found on the right hand side a short convenient travelling distance. distance after the Village Hall and should be easily recognised by our For Sale Boards and photographs of the properties. Garden and Parking Area. The Property Nearby towns include (Total area 0.070 acres) In the early 1950’s there is evidence that Crate Sturminster Newton, a traditional market town Cottage was thatched but this was removed and located at a bend of the Stour which offers a Entrance Lobby with replaced by clay tiles before the end of that wide range of shopping facilities, and the Sitting/Dining Room Cloakroom off, Open Plan decade. The cottage was purchased by the Georgian Market town of Blandford Forum has owners of Crate in 1958 and was originally their Sitting/Dining Room with a larger range of shops and supermarkets. The holiday home and then their much loved home larger towns of Gillingham to the north and the Kitchen Area, First Floor: until Crate came to the market in the early 1970’s. Abbey town of Sherborne to the West offer a The property remained in the family and in Double Bedroom and more extensive range of shopping and cultural recent times has been updated again for use as a facilities. Family Shower Room, Holiday Home by family members. It now Second Floor: Double boasts a modern ground floor cloakroom and open plan Living/Dining Room with fitted Communication There are main-line railway stations at Bedroom. Kitchen Area off. On the First Floor there is a Double Bedroom and Family Shower Room, Gillingham and Sherborne offering services to whilst a steep staircase leads to the 2nd Floor London (Waterloo) and the West Country. Double Bedroom with built in wardrobes. The London by car via the A303/M3 which can be joined just north of Shaftesbury or at Mere. Outside Kitchen Area: lights, exposed beamwork and radiator. Windows to the rear Cupboard housing gas fired combi boiler elevation. Range of supplying central heating and hot water floor standing units systems. Feature brick fire surround with wood effect (decoration only). worksurfaces From the 1st Floor Landing a steep having inset staircase with return leads to: stainless steel sink unit with tiled Bedroom 2: This charming attic room has a splash backs and window to the side elevation and velux surround. There is window. Exposed beamwork, polished space and plumbing pine floor boards and double doors to fittedCrate Cottage is approached via under for a washing wardrobe and storage. Recessed ceiling a Council owned track which Kitchen Area machine and larder lights. serves 3 other properties fridge. Integrated including Crate. The Parking appliances include space and Cottage Garden for Accommodation: an electric oven and gas hob. Ceramic tiled Crate Cottage is on the opposite (Please see floor plan for approximate floor and recessed ceiling lights. side of this track. It should be measurements). From the Kitchen Area staircase with noted that the Yew Tree to the Ground Floor storage cupboard at return leads to the rear of the garden and parking area has a Tree Preservation First Floor Landing: window to the side Solid Wood Front Door to: Order on it and has been dated elevation, radiator, door to storage as being over 350 years old. Entrance Lobby: Window to the front cupboard and further door to staircase and elevation and quarry tiled floor. 2nd Floor Bedroom. Bedroom 2 Family Shower Room: Cloakroom: Painted panelling to dado rail, Opaque glazed window low level w.c., wall mounted wash hand to the side elevation. basin with tiled splash back, radiator and Painted panelling to quarry tiled floor. Opaque glazed window dado rail, ceramic tiled to side elevation and recessed ceiling light. floor and fully tiled Open Plan Living/Dining Room with shower cubicle. Wash Kitchen Area: hand basin with mixer tap over set into a vanity Sitting/Dining Room: Window to the front unit, low level w.c., and Cottage Garden: This is elevation, Inglenook Fireplace with radiator. currently laid to lawn and is bressummer beam over, bread oven to one Bedroom 1: Window to bordered on three sides by side and inset woodburning stove set upon the front elevation. mature hedging. a slate hearth. Exposed beamwork, Polished pine floor recessed ceiling lights, radiator and quarry boards, recessed ceiling tiled floor. Bedroom 1 IMPORTANT NOTICE Crate Cottage Abbot and Slater and their Clients give FLOOR PLAN notice that: 1. The particulars are intended to give a fair and substantially correct overall description for the guidance of intending purchasers and do not constitute part of an offer or contract. Prospective purchasers and lessees ought to seek their own professional advice. 2. All descriptions, dimensions, areas, reference to condition and necessary permissions for use and occupation and other details are given in good faith, and are believed to be correct, but any intending purchasers should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact, but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of each of them. 3. No person in the employment of Abbot and Services: Mains water, electricity, Slater has any authority to make or give any gas and drainage. Gas fired representation of warranty whatever in GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR central heating. relation to the property. 4. No responsibility can be accepted for any Local Authority: expenses incurred by intending purchasers North Dorset District Council, in inspecting properties which have been Nordon, Salisbury Road, sold, or withdrawn.

Blandford DT11 7LN. Viewing: Strictly by appointment through Telephone: 01258 454111. Abbot and Slater. Prior to making an appointment to view, the Agents strongly Council Tax Band: C recommend that you discuss any particular Amount payable for the current points which are likely to affect your interest in year: £1,492.56 the property in order that you do not make a wasted journey. Accompanied Viewings: Strictly by appointment All measurements are approximate. FIRST FLOOR through the agents Particulars prepared by CDS Plan for indentification purposes only. Not to Scale. Abbot and Slater. Design by Media 4 Graphix Published by Abbot & Slater © February 2017

Abbot & Slater Market Cross, Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 1AN Telephone 01258 830860 email: [email protected] www.abbotandslater.co.uk